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Posted on 06/16/2017 6:54:40 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Fans of Cuban rum and cigars can rest easy. So can the Starwood chain, which has a deal to manage a historic hotel in Havana. But Americans who want to vacation in Cuba or start doing business there will find it harder as a result of President Trump’s misguided decision to slam the brakes on a two-year-old diplomatic opening with the island.
Mr. Trump told a cheering crowd in Miami on Friday that his goal is to achieve a “free Cuba.” In truth, his new policy is just the latest chapter in a spiteful political crusade to overturn crucial elements of his predecessor’s legacy while genuflecting to Cuban-Americans in Miami’s exile community who helped put him in office.
By now, Mr. Trump has perfected the art not of the deal but of dismantling what went before. “I am canceling the last administration’s completely one-sided deal with Cuba,” he declared, an exaggeration in that he reversed only parts of it. But they were important parts, including relaxations on travel and commerce negotiated by President Barack Obama. The net result is that Cuban-American relations are likely to revert to a more adversarial Cold War footing, undermining Washington’s standing in Latin America.
Under the new policy, Americans may no longer plan their own private trips to Cuba, and those who travel with authorized education tours will be subject to new rules to ensure that they are not tourists. American companies and citizens will be barred from doing business with firms controlled by the Cuban military or its intelligence services, thus denying Americans access to critical parts of the Cuban economy, including much of the tourism sector.
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Wish he'd get rid of every last vestige of it. Just today I saw something about transgender sensitivity training for the troops. BARF!
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Ah, the butthurt remains strong with the Times.
The Stalinists at the NYT take personal offense at the notion that Cuba should be free.
Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro: The heroes of the NY Times.
Somehow the evil which is the Castro family escaped the notice of the NYT.
The headline should read “The Correct Reversal on Cuba”. NYT, you can thank me.
The ‘misguided’ New York Times is more appropriate.
I guess this idiot hasn’t heard that after the initial surge, noone is traveling to Cuba.
How about a “cynical reversal” for Duranty? This rabid leftist rag cannot die soon enough.
We promised, well Kennedy did, not to invade thus guaranteeing Castro's regime would endure.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a disaster for US foreign policy.
Has the NYT ID’d the criminal editorial writer that claimed Palin was responsible for Giffords attack?
What’s the holdup?
I read the headline and said to the spouse: Must be the NYT. Sure ‘nuff. Some folks are so predictable.
The New York Times would like to see done to every patriotic, Constitution-loving American what Che Guevara did to small business owners in Cuba.
They would — of course — avert their eyes from the resulting gore.
I’ve sampled Cuban rum and cigars.
The rum is clearly a pale shadow of its former self. Readily-available Kirk & Sweeney is far, far better...especially the liquid-candy-bar 23 year version.
Cigars, OTOH...they can be VERY good—but they have to be legit, and then you have to let them “rest” for a year or more, depending on size. (The pre-Embargo importers once did this beforehand.)
As to that weakling Kennedy, he was presented a thought-out, potentially-successful plan (landing in a different location than the Bay of Pigs), and chose to dilute it in the name of “plausible deniability” (something that didn’t concern Ike)...and at least four Americans, Alabama ANG pilots that couldn’t stomach the idea of abandoning men they had trained, paid the ultimate price for his perfidy.
This is the part that really gets their goat:
“American companies and citizens will be barred from doing business with firms controlled by the Cuban military or its intelligence services, thus denying Americans access to critical parts of the Cuban economy, including much of the tourism sector.”
If the NYT is against the policy change, Trump must be on the right track.
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